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Thursday, July 12, 2012

I'm fascinated by what motivates people... in the workplace, in the home, everywhere! This video talks about the human desire for self-motivation, and how creativity and innovation really only comes with autonomy. This video can be applied in lots of different areas.

Check it out!

I'm adding a label Sue's Video Collection, so I (and you, if you're interested) can easily find these great videos that I run across out on the internet, Facebook, etc. They seem to vanish on me, and then I'm left wondering where it was, who shared it, or the specifics of the video. So, hopefully this will help!

Friday, July 6, 2012

It seems we're on the cutting edge of Quantum Field theory and Particle Physics this week! I am no physicist, but for some reason I find this fascinating!

Here's how I broke it down for myself, and maybe it will help you too.

Particle Physics tries to explain what makes up matter. They look at the tiniest particles to give them explanation of how the universe was built and even how galaxies stay together. These physicists study many things, but they are very interested in the properties of subatomic particles, or bosons.

In 1964, three scientists, one named Peter Higgs, wrote papers postulating that there is another boson out there, very different from the rest. It was named the Higgs Boson, with the controversial nickname, The God Particle. Scientists have been looking for evidence of this particle for decades now.

Here are a couple of videos with a little more explanation:

And on July 4th, scientists working with the Large Hadron Collidor (LHC) at Cern, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, announced their discovery that they have found a particle that acts as the Higgs Boson was expected to act.

“At the beginning I had no idea a discovery would be made in my lifetime,” Higgs, 83, said at a press conference in the Old College at the University of Edinburgh, where he worked from 1960 until his retirement in 1996. “It’s very nice to be right sometimes.”http://public.web.cern.ch/public/en/lhc/lhc-en.html

Science is always changing, always checking itself, always looking for explanations. And sometimes, when they make a discovery, it opens all kinds of nearby doors that before seemed shut. So this week is a big deal - we might be a little bit closer to finding out more about the mysteries of the Universe.